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May 4, 2015

Ash and Ruin Series Book Tour: Spotlight

Welcome to my stop on the Ash and Ruin series book tour! Today I'll be spotlighting each of the three books in the series. So read on for more details and info on the author! To follow the rest of the tour, click on the banner above.

World of Ash (Ash and Ruin #1)

Author: Shauna Granger

Genre: YA Dystopia

Release Date: December 2, 2013

Description:

There are two inherent truths in the world: life as we know it is over, and monsters are real.

The
Pestas came in the night, spreading their pox, a deadly plague that
decimated the population. Kat, one of the unlucky few who survived, is
determined to get to her last living relative and find shelter from the
pox that continues to devastate the world. When it mutates and becomes
airborne, Kat is desperate to avoid people because staying alone might
be her only chance to stay alive.

That is, until she meets Dylan.
Dylan, with his easy smile and dark, curly hair, has nowhere to go and
no one to live for. He convinces Kat there can be safety in numbers,
that they can watch out for each other. So the unlikely couple set off
together through the barren wasteland to find a new life – if they can
survive the roaming Pestas, bands of wild, gun-toting children, and
piles of burning, pox-ridden bodies.

Battered
and bruised after barely escaping San Francisco with their lives, Kat,
Dylan, and Blue press north – desperate to reach the possibility of a
new home.

But strange, monstrous ravens are tracking the
remaining survivors, food is becoming scarce, gasoline is running short,
and people are becoming suicidal, making survival almost impossible.

And the Pestas are growing bolder. Somehow, their numbers are growing.

The
further north they go, the harder it becomes to ignore the signs that
they’ve made a fatal mistake. Kat must face the impossible truth that
there is no escape, there is no safe haven, and their worst nightmares
don’t come close to their new reality.

Hope is a dangerous thing, but powerful. Hope keeps you going. Hope
can keep you alive.

But hope can shatter your world.

Kat and Dylan
have found a home, but the monsters are still out there. The pox and
plague still ravage the world. They have hope of finding a vaccine, but
their encampment isn't equipped to develop it.

Dylan is still too weak
from the pox to leave the encampment, so Kat must decide between staying
by his side and protecting her last remaining family member as he
leaves to find supplies. Separated for the first time since they came
together, Kat and Dylan will have to fight their own battles to save
what is left of their bloody world.

Kat will have to hold on to hope that she has anything left to save and someone to come home to. If she can survive.

Like so many other writers, Shauna grew up as an avid reader, but it
was in high school that she realized she wanted to be a writer. Five
years ago, Shauna started work on her Elemental Series. She released the
first installment, Earth, on May 1, 2011 and has since released four
sequels, with the series coming to an end with Spirit. She is currently
hard at work on a new Urban Fantasy series, staring a spunky witch with a
smush-faced cat named Artemis.